Obituaries: Ruth Elaine Cockerham Ussery, 1968, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: May 16, 1968 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Relative of Winn Residents Dies; Burial At Union

Funeral services were held Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Hixson Brothers Funeral
Home, Winnfield, for Mrs. Ruth Elaine Ussery, 49, a former resident of
Shreveport and teacher for the South Cameron High School, who was killed in
an auto accident Friday, May 10, 1968 at 9:20 p.m. five miles north of Creole
in Cameron Parish.

The Rev. Thomas Cox officiated with burial in the Old Union Cemetery near
Winnfield.

Mrs. Ussery, the daughter of A. W. Cockerham, Sr., who survives her, and the
late Lela Gorham Cockerham, both natives of Winn Parish, was killed in the
collision of a car and an oilfield truck.

Survivors include her father, A. W. Cockerham, Sr., of Shreveport; one son,
Charles E. Ussery, Arcadia; two daughters, Mrs. Kay Perritt, Arcadia, and Mrs.
Nancy Hayes, Monroe; one brother, A. W. Cockerham, Jr., Metairie; three
sisters, Mrs. Billie Langston, Jackson, Miss., Mrs. Mavis Biggerstaff, Creole,
and Mrs. Hazel Campsi, Shreveport; and two grandchildren and a host of
relatives in Winn Parish.